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But if Martinez hadn't come on board you wouldn't have lukaku, mirallas, defoeleu (sp), cleverley (has he done anything apart from score that last minute goal).
Doesn't his attacking footballing good outweigh the defensive ills? He wants to play attacking possession based football, that's what you signed up for when he came on board, so not much point in crying about defensive failings at this point.
Maybe Martinez isn't a manager to get you challenging for stuff, maybe he's one of those that improves you to a certain point, lays attacking foundations and someone else comes in and takes you forward that final step or two.
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Maybe Martinez isn't a manager to get you challenging for stuff, maybe he's one of those that improves you to a certain point, lays attacking foundations and someone else comes in and takes you forward that final step or two.
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Moyes bought Mirallas, just for pedantry's sake. Disappointed if we lost him and Nais. Mirallas never seems to have won the fans back after missing that penalty he shouldn't have taken against west brom last season, even though when he actually gets played he's generally very good for us and was our best forward before lukaku hit form. Naismith is a far better player than anyone gives him credit for. Slow and ageing, but intelligent and a surprisingly good finisher. Would gladly keep him over Kone.
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Trust me, Naismith has done fuck all this season(Chelsea hat trick aside). Fuck me, if Kone can get a start ahead of you for most of the season it really is time to leave.
Martinez is our main problem, has been for most of his time with us.
We are now basically Wigan but with Lukaku. I mean that not in the sense that we have shit(ish) players like Wigan but that we are leaking goals like they did. It's common knowledge he doesn't train the defence or work on set pieces and it shows. We've conceded the most goals in The Prem from set pieces this season and third worst defence in the league, it's not good enough.
We have the players to beat any team on their day but Martinez is the weak link